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Available from  ontos verlag Frankfurt, Germany and online bookstores such as  Amazon under the title Social Ontology : Recasting Political Philosophy Through a Phenomenology of Whoness 2008 Hardback xiv + 688 pp. ISBN 978-3-938793-78-7 and as an e-book from  ontoslink. Also at  Google Book Search where extensive parts can be read.

Freedom, value, power, justice, government, legitimacy are major themes of this inquiry. It explores the ontological structure of human beings associating with one another, the basic phenomenon of society. We human beings strive to become who we are in an ongoing power interplay with each other. Thinkers called as witnesses include Plato, Aristotle, Anaximander, Protagoras, Hobbes, Descartes, Leibniz, Locke, Adam Smith, Hume, Hegel, Marx, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Heidegger, Schumpeter, Hayek, Carl Schmitt, Ernst Jünger, et al.

To find out what the book is not about, read the uncomprehending repudiation in apl. Prof. Dr. Dr. Heinz-Gerd Schmitz's review in Phil. Jahrb. Vol. 116 1/2009. As Jethro Masis puts it, "Philosophy as philosophizing is, in a way, peripatetic: It does not spare the reader the arduousness of walking the path with his own feet".

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